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| International Replay Baseball League - Founded October 30, 1973 |
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| ***************** IRBL NEWSLETTER # 849 ***************** 3-21-10 |
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PLAYER TRANSACTIONS:
The NATIONALS released CHRIS AGUILA,
TADAHITO IGUCHI, DAVID NEWHAN, KAZUO
FUKUMORI, KENT MERCKER, RYAN WAGNER.
The MARLINS released JASON BOTTS,
FREDDIE BYNUM, MIKE CERVENAK, CLAY
HENSLEY, FERNANDO HERNANDEZ, RUDDY
LUGO, ROBERTO NOVOA, JASON STANFORD.
The INDIANS released MELVIN DORTA,
BRETT CAMPBELL.
The CUBS released JOHN GALL.
The TIGERS released A.J. HINCH, SEAN
KAZMAR, JASON LANE, MATT DESALVO,
JIM MILLER, CARLOS MUNIZ, STEVE
TRACHSEL, EHREN WASSERMANN.
The ASTROS released MARK JOHNSON,
ALEJANDRO MACHADO, MARK SACCOMANNO,
JOE BISENIUS, JEFF RIDGWAY.
The RAYS released MIKE HESSMAN, TRAVIS
METCALF, SCOTT SPIEZIO, MATT TUPMAN,
BRYAN COREY, TOM SHEARN.
The GIANTS released JOHN-FORD GRIFFIN,
JONATHAN HERRERA, JOHN JASO, DONNIE
MURPHY, JUNIOR SPIVEY, PHIL
BARZILLA, HARVEY GARCIA, AKINORI
OTSUKA.
The RANGERS released JAY PAYTON, SCOTT
THORMAN, JOSELO DIAZ, JASON JOHNSON,
MIKE MAROTH, FRANKLIN NUNEZ,
FRANCISCO ROSARIO, SALOMON TORRES.
The ANGELS released ALEXIS GOMEZ, TROY
NEEL, TOMAS PEREZ, RICHIE SEXSON,
FRANCIS BELTRAN, ADAM BERNERO,
ESTEBAN LOAIZA, JUAN SALAS, DERRICK
TURNBOW.
The ORIOLES traded KEVIN MILLWOOD to
the RANGERS for ERVIN SANTANA.
The MARLINS traded JASON KUBEL,
LASTINGS MILLEDGE to the PHILLIES
for ASDRUBAL CABRERA, RYAN SWEENEY.
The BREWERS released DANNY ARDOIN,
JUAN ENCARNACION, ROBBY HAMMOCK,
OSCAR ROBLES, RICK BAUER, GARY
GLOVER, VICTOR SANTOS.
The NATIONALS released SCOTT DOHMANN.
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2010 IRBL Schedule:
Due to the continued use of an
unbalanced schedule and Interleague
series that the Major Leagues has used
since 1999, the 2010 IRBL schedule is
again unbalanced. Although all IRBL
teams play 81 road games and 81 home
games, the number of series per team
varies. AL teams play 38 or 40 series
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and NL teams play 43, 44 or 45 series.
So that the NL teams will not get an
advantage of having extra days off for
scheduling starting pitchers, NL teams
have 4 series where there are no days
off between series. These series are
noted with an asterisk, "*", on the
Starting Pitchers Rotation sheet after
the series date. For these noted
series, there will be no day-off
between this series and the preceding
series for calculating the days off
between starts for starting pitchers.
There are also some series dates where
some teams have no series scheduled.
You will find the post-season schedule
at the bottom of the SCHEDULE.Y10
file.
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My thanks again to Gerry McDonald for
volunteering and preparing the 2010
IRBL schedule. This is the 13th
straight year that Gerry has completed
this time consuming task and I
appreciate the effort.
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Included with this newsletter are the
following items so you can prepare
your 2010 season team instructions
(refer to IRBL Rule # 15):
1) Starting Pitchers Rotation forms
for all teams (PITCHING.Txx)
2) Inactive List forms for all teams
(INACTIVE.Txx)
3) Team Instructions forms
(INSTRUCT.Txx)
4) Player Usage forms for all teams
(PLAYERUF.Y10)
xx: IRBL team code number
I recommend using a Windows text
editor program (such as Notepad or
Wordpad) to edit the files.
If you prefer, you can use the DOS
EDIT program via the IRBL Menu Program
as follows: Select "Display or Print
Series Results or Newsletter Files"
from the IRBL Menu Program. Highlight
the file name in the LIST file
selection display and press the [E]
key. This will invoke the DOS EDIT
program. Be sure that you are in the
"Overwrite mode" (the cursor will be a
blinking rectangle) and not the
"Insert mode" (the cursor would be a
blinking underscore, "_"). You can
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switch between modes by pressing the
[Insert] key. The "Overwrite mode" is
easier to work with because it will
not "push out" the remainder of the
line when you type.
Be sure not to use the [Tab] key to
align columns. Instead, use the
[spacebar] to insert spaces to align
columns.
Please do not use a word processing
program (such as Word, Works or
WordPerfect) because these programs
will modify the format of the file and
will insert special characters that
will be time-consuming for me to
remove. You can verify that the file
is saved as pure text by viewing the
file with the IRBL Menu Program and
verifying that you do not see any
strange characters mixed in the file.
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Please use the following guidelines
when filling out the forms:
1) Starting Pitchers Rotation form:
Fill in the pitcher's initials (2
capital letters only) next to each
game number. At the bottom of the
page, list each pitcher's full
name, the initials used, indicate
if he throws "L" or "R" and the
number of starts he is scheduled
for using the following format:
T GS
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BOUCHER, DENIS (DB) L 25
DELUCIA, RICH (RD) R 30
GROOM, BUDDY (BG) L 30
JONES, JIMMY (JJ) R 27
MILITELLO, SAM (SM) R 11
PUGH, TIM (TP) R 8
ROBINSON, RON (RR) R 2
WILLIAMS, MIKE (MW) R 29
When typing the above chart, make
sure that you do not exceed 60
lines on the page or 80 characters
on a line (refer to the line and
column counter in the lower right
corner of the editing screen).
2) Inactive List form: Place an "XX"
(use capital letters only) in the
appropriate box for each player on
the Inactive List for each series.
There must be exactly 25 players on
the "Active List" for each series
(i.e., 25 boxes next to a player's
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name in each column that do not
have a "XX"). At least four
pitchers (in addition to the
scheduled starting pitchers) must
be on the "Active List" for every
series.
3) Team Instructions: Edit this file
to contain your starting lineups
for all your road and home series
(including all lineups stored in
your Computer Manager profile).
If you leave out your home series
lineups, your instruction package
will be considered incomplete.
If you list a player in every
lineup who cannot play 162 games,
you must include a note indicating
which games he will be sat out and
who will replace him.
When typing this page, make sure
that you do not exceed 60 lines on
the page or 80 characters on a
line.
4) Player Usage Form: The PLAYERUF.Y10
file contains a filled out form for
each team. You can select and copy
your team's form to a file (use
file name PLAYERUF.Txx) using the
directions detailed in IRBL Rule #
21A.
5) Computer Manager: Create your
profile following the guidelines in
IRBL Rule # 15 and export the file
to the C:\IRBL\RESULTS.Y10
directory naming the export file
MP-xx (where xx is your IRBL team
code number) (if your number is
less than 10, then precede it with
a "0") (i.e, the DODGERS file would
be MP-03) (the DMB procedure is
Transfer-Export statistics, select
your team, select nothing on the
next two screens, navigate to the
RESULTS.Y10 directory and type in
your MP-xx file name)
NOTE: Remember to set the "AB vs
LHP" or "AB vs RHP" to zero for the
players who cannot enter the game
vs a LHP or vs a RHP (per IRBL Rule
# 15A1C) (some people forget to do
this).
NOTE: The computer manager will
ignore pitchers who are not listed
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in the "Relief" pitcher profile and
will use "ineligible" pitchers
ahead of such "eligible" pitchers
if no other relief pitcher is
available. Therefore, if you want a
pitcher (starter or reliever) to
ever to be used in relief, you must
list him in the "Relief" pitcher
profile (and set him to
"ineligible" in the games that you
do not want him to relieve).
Prepare the above detailed files and
then select "Create ZIP file of Team
Instructions Files set" from the IRBL
Menu Program. This will combine the
files into one file called
INSTRUxx.ZIP (where xx is your IRBL
team number). Send me this
INSTRUxx.ZIP file via email.
The 4 files are summarized as follows:
1) INSTRUCT.Txx
2) PITCHING.Txx
3) INACTIVE.Txx
4) MP-xx.ZIP
If you are not using the IRBL Menu
Program, send the above listed 4 team
instructions file inside a zipfile
named using this format:
INSTRUxx.ZIP
NOTE: The xx is the two digit IRBL
team number. These numbers
are:
xx xx
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D-BACKS 29 ANGELS 13
DODGERS 03 ATHLETICS 14
GIANTS 04 MARINERS 25
PADRES 05 RANGERS 15
ROCKIES 27
ASTROS 01 INDIANS 20
BREWERS 19 ROYALS 16
CARDINALS 07 TIGERS 23
CUBS 08 TWINS 17
PIRATES 12 WHITE SOX 18
REDS 06
BRAVES 02 BLUE JAYS 26
NATIONALS 09 RAYS 30
MARLINS 28 ORIOLES 21
METS 10 RED SOX 22
PHILLIES 11 YANKEES 24
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NOTE ABOUT MY REVIEW OF THE TEAM
SEASON INSTRUCTIONS:
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As I indicated the past 7 years, I
will no longer perform a detailed
review of all team season instructions
to verify that every plan is
sufficient so that no player would be
overused because it is just too time
consuming. There are IRBL Rules that
penalize you for over-using players
(such players cannot be used in the
post-season and you are penalized in
next year's draft) so be sure you are
carefully planning and monitoring your
players' usage during the season.
What I will do is make sure that the
instructions are as easy to read as
possible (i.e., upper and lower case
instead of all capital letters,
separate line items for each special
instruction and separate sections for
road and home instructions).
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SPECIAL DIRECTION REGARDING HOME
SERIES INSTRUCTIONS:
It is a struggle every year getting
every manager to provide the home
series instructions that cover all
lineup changes and which players
replace which players. The main
purpose of preparing those
instructions is so they will be
available in case a manager cannot
play his home series. A secondary
benefit is that it provides each team
with a plan that will prevent (if
followed) any player overuse (and
resulting penalties). The intent was
not to make more work for the vast
majority of the managers who will play
all their home series just for
protection against the few who fall
behind or drop out.
This is what I have accepted over the
past 5 years and will accept again
this year: If you don't want to
prepare a home series plan and want to
adjust player usage on your own during
home series, if you state at the
bottom of the instructions that you
will complete all your team's home
series, then you can leave out the
home instructions. I would then expect
you to either do what said (or submit
home series instructions before you
leave the IRBL).
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All the team instruction files will be
distributed shortly after the
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instructions receipt deadline.
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The following teams are without
permanent managers:
Play your road series against these
teams:
DODGERS : Pete McClymont (TGM)
MARLINS : John Parker (TGM)
ATHLETICS : Gerry McDonald (TGM)
BLUE JAYS : Chip Hopkins (TGM)
The following teams have temporary
managers who will be playing the home
series for the team plus road series
against the above other teams who do
not have a game playing manager:
REDS : John Mattfeld (TM)
ROYALS : Don Tobin (TM)
TWINS : George P. Widenor (TM)
ORIOLES : Ricky Diaz (TM)
RAYS : Marc Schlotthauer (TM)
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DEADLINES:
Apr. 11 - Team instructions to be
received by League Office
and all managers within
your league
Apr. 15 - First series of 2010 season
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Files included on LRD # 849:
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INACTIVE.Txx --> Inactive List Forms
INSTRUCT.Txx --> Team Instructions
file
IRBLROST.TXT --> IRBL Rosters
NEWSL849.xxx --> Newsletter # 849
PITCHING.Txx --> Starting Pitchers
Rotation Sheets
PLAYERUF.Y10 --> Player Usage Forms
for all teams
SCHEDULE.Y10 --> IRBL NL and AL league
schedule
File Extension Legend (xxx):
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T1C --> Viewable one column newsletter
text format
TXT --> Viewable text format
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BK